OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Trackback tricks

I’ve been losing a few skirmishes against Trackback spam recently. More than a few, I guess; they are hammering the site.

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Sponsored CAPTCHA

My million dollar idea for today:
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Fixed: Avoiding Email Spam Leads to Comment Spam

Short version: OddThinking occasionally gets some weird off-topic comments on the EmailShroud page. I have taken some action, and I am hoping it will stop now.

Longer more interesting version follows…

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Deleted items in Feed Aggregators

Spam comments sometimes get added to my comments feed, and never get removed.

I have understood this problem for a while, and yesterday I set out to patch it.

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Spam classification

I prefer blog spam to email spam.

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